West Campus legal battle comes to end

Both parties in the legal battle over South San Antonio High School West Campus seemed relieved Wednesday night to put the ordeal behind them.

All seven South San Antonio Independent School District trustees agreed to the terms of the settlement with Save West Campus, the group parents created to fight the board’s Oct. 23 decision to close the school.

Board President Manuel Lopez, who called the lawsuit frivolous, said the district conceded nothing. And, he said, the Save West Campus parents represent a minority in the district: Everyone he comes across in the community lauds the board for it’s decision to close the school.

But parents are viewing the settlement as a victory. Peggy Urbano, president of Save West Campus said what may seem like minor concessions from the district are really significant because they represent the beginning of change in South San Antonio ISD.

Her group of parents doesn’t plan on going away, she said. They’ll be at board meetings and will start paying closer attention to what is happening at central office. And when the district decides what it will use the West Campus building for &#151 whenever that may be &#151 parents plan to have their voices heard, Urbano said.

For a recap on the West Campus case, I leave you with links to some previous blogs.

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I think its interesting that Dr. Zavala has chosen now to announce his retirement when Harlandale has no money & most of it is Zavala’s fault. Now they are going to start cutting jobs & the poor working stiff is going to be jobless. I think they should trim the fat with all these administrators ( Harlandale has alot of aministrators for a small district) especially those who knew what Zavala was doing & never said anything. these should be the first to go. Instead you have people like Zavala with a nice fat pension who will be living off the taxpayers while teachers, counselors, social workers will be losing their jobs. What a shame! But then Harlandale has been a mess for some time. I wonder whose fault that is?

Well I was listening to debrief on Joe Pags on WOAI. I do not live in the district I live in Alamo Heights. I feel sad that the parents have to pay their legal fees. They parents were claiming victory while the school district spokesman was not saying much.

I fail to understand while the school district spokesperson called a civics lesson when his bosses with their counter suit tried to intimidate parents into shutting up. Then again Central Office is a mythical place where standard laws of reason do not apply.

I am happy for the parents. If I had money to give I would be happy to chip in some money to pay their lawyer.